"...Physicists find no support in their experiments or calculations for the concept of a present that intervenes between a past and a future.  It is as if the universe is simply a historical document, with each successive chapter different in a predictable way from the one before and the one following, but with no bookmark to show where the reading has reached. This picture is one of extreme determinism.  Not only is the future predetermined by what has gone before; it is, in a sense, already there."  [bold face added]   Plan and Purpose in Nature, George C. Williams, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1996.

"The moral unacceptability of natural selection is not just a conclusion to be asserted or accepted, but one to be thought about.  ...although the biological creation process is indeed evil, it is also abysmally stupid.  We can have some hope that our intelligent efforts to cicumvent the evil can triumph over so unreasoning an enemy.  We can hope, with Thomas Huxley, that '[i]n virtue of his intelligence, the dwarf bends the Titan to his will,' or in Richard Dawkins' words, that we can successfully rebel 'against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.' "  ibid.

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